Neil Henry

Neil Henry

Personal information
Nickname	King
Born	(1961-01-23) 23 January 1961 (age 56) Hobart, Tasmania
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 2007–08 Canberra Raiders 49 22 0 27 45 2009–13 North Qld Cowboys 124 59 0 65 48 2014– Gold Coast Titans 43 18 0 25 42 Total 216 99 0 117 46 Representative Years Team Gms W D L W% 2008 Dreamtime Team 1 1 0 0 100 2010 Indigenous All Stars 1 1 0 0 100
Source: Rugby League Project

Neil Henry (born 23 January 1961) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently head coach for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League. Henry previously coached the Canberra Raiders and the North Queensland Cowboys. He has been described as, "one of the game's best tacticians."

Henry was a foundation player of the Raiders, having played for the club from 1982 and 1984 in the lower grades. After a succession of player-coach positions at local clubs in the Canberra competition, he was made coach of the Western Reds' Under 19 team in 1997, before coaching Raiders lower-grade teams between 1999 and 2002.

He was previously the assistant coach of the North Queensland Cowboys between 2002 and 2006, and assistant to Mal Meninga in the Queensland State of Origin team from 2006–2009.

In his first season as an NRL head coach, Henry incurred a fine of $10,000 for the Raiders by questioning the impartiality of the referee following a round 19 loss to Melbourne Storm in 2007.

Henry was named Dally M Coach of the Year for 2008, ahead of other nominees Craig Bellamy, Ricky Stuart and Des Hasler.

In October, 2008, Henry returned to Townsville, Queensland to take over from Ian Millward as head coach of the North Queensland Cowboys. He was also coach of the Australian Aboriginal rugby league team who played before the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.